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:pacman: Starrett has a factory in China. My genuine Starrett DTI and magnetic base are both of Chinese origin......

This from 2004. Who knows how far they have progressed with Chinese sourcing...

The real good point of a good set of digitals, apart from the failing eyesight bit, is the ability to do be able to do maths on them ie take a measurement, zero them and then measure something else...

One of my 4 DTI is an expensiveStarrett digital. It never gets used. It is the most hopeless thing to use compared to a clockwork dial gauge.
Re an earlier comment, I have never had a Mitutoyo...

Most of my measuring equipment is Mitutoyo but I have a knock around set of verniers to preserve my good ones. Good quality for the price TESTNTOOLS - Digital Caliper :: ROK Digital Caliper (Vernier)...